Apart from the issue of
insecurity which Jega gave as the reason for the postponement of the
elections, do you think INEC was ready to conduct the elections on
February 14 and 28?
I granted an interview recently and
there were two posers that I gave to Jega. Thank God Jega is a
professor. He told us that there was an 88 per cent collection rate in
Borno State where there is massive insurgency as well as in Yobe and
Adamawa states. Here, where there is calmness and civility, only 30
something per cent of the populace had collected PVCs. It is just
improving. I think as of last Friday over three million had collected as
against 5.6 million. And he is saying we are ready. Without the
Permanent Voter Cards, you are immediately disenfranchised. Ask Jega
that as a professor, will it be fair to conduct an examination whereby
you have (students who have) covered 80 per cent syllabus and another
class where you have (students who have) covered only 30 per cent
syllabus. Is it fair?
The other question is this issue of card
readers. Have they been tested? I am talking as an electronic engineer
of 48 years in practice. You just bought equipment from China and the
last time it was tested was in China. Our own environment is not the
same. Look at the vagaries of the temperature here from the swampy areas
of the South and the savannah in the North. Who has tested the
equipment? Now, I am not saying they will not all work but if there are
almost 9,000 polling units in Lagos, is he saying all the 9,000 card
readers will be functional? If the card readers fail to work in some
polling units, what shall we do?
If Bola Tinubu finds his way into national government, I will go on
exile. He hasn’t the temerity and the calmness of mind. They don’t even
know what to do in power. Because the vice-president is his boy, he will
just order that Bode George should be picked up. He said soldiers came
to him but he must have been dreaming. When he said soldiers had
surrounded his house, I drove down there because my house is not too far
from there. I know the hierarchy of the military and its behaviour.
That they surrounded his house is lie number one because on either side
of his house are two buildings. There is also one at the back. So, I
wondered where the soldiers were hiding. Why would you lie for public
consumption? So when I got down there, I knew that his spin doctors were
working. These days people go on the social media and the story went
viral. Why would he (President Godluck Jonathan) from Abuja, be running
after Bola? Let them be very careful about the statements they are
making. More so, if Obasanjo is now linking Jonathan with what happened
in Cote d’Ivoire and coup; not in this 21st Century. That is past and
gone forever. No nation goes through this kind of tribulation twice and
survive. We have had our own experience of Civil War and I pray that God
does not direct our minds in that direction and our people have to
watch their mouths.
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